Corbyn says the Commons rejected May’s deal. Can’t she understand she needs to come up with something else?

But it is not just on Brexit she is failing. Poverty is rising. When will it fall while she is in office?

May says there are 1 million fewer people in absolute poverty, and 300,000 fewer children in absolute poverty. Labour would spend £1,000bn more, she says.

Corbyn says May is in denial on a customs union, in denial on no deal, in denial on the amount of money spent on no-deal planning, and on poverty ... At this point Tory MPs jeer. Corbyn says this is significant. “Tell that to people queuing up at food banks,” he says.

What is May’s greatest failure, he asks, listing various education policy problems.

May says this is a government delivering on education.

She says Corbyn has consistently failed to set out what his Brexit policy is.

Jeremy Corbyn starts by saying he needs to correct the record. Last night he said this was the largest government defeat since the 1920s. In fact, it is the largest defeat in our democratic history.

Is May ruling out the UK staying in the customs union in her cross-party talks?

May says she wants to leave the EU in a way that respects the votes of the people in the referendum. That means ending free movement, getting control of laws and money, and having a good relationship with the EU.

Corbyn asks May to confirm that we can’t have a no-deal Brexit. Greg Clark, the business secretary, said that in a call with business leaders yesterday, he says.

May says she does not want a no-deal Brexit. MPs can avoid no deal by voting for a deal, she says.

Scottish and Welsh first ministers demand urgent meeting with May to discuss Brexit

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The first ministers of Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford, have urged Theresa May for an urgent meeting in an effort to jointly agree a way out of the Brexit impasse.

As she arrived at Westminster to meet Scottish National party MPs, Sturgeon released a letter she had sent May, calling for the prime minister to host a joint ministerial committee involving all four of the UK’s governments (although Northern Ireland would be represented by UK civil servants since Stormont’s power-sharing government is suspended).

Sturgeon said Drakeford was also calling on May to arrange a JMC, and told May:

Your government has now clearly failed to bring the country together in support of your proposed deal. It is time to recognise that reality and change course, starting with a new approach which seeks to find a way forward by genuinely involving the four nations of the UK.

Up until now, despite stated intentions, the UK government has taken little or no account of the views of the people of Scotland or the position of the Scottish government.

[It] is important, contrary to our experience of the past two and a half years, that such a meeting must be more than window dressing. Urgent and meaningful discussions are needed in the next days to agree a way forward which can command a majority in the House of Commons, and which has the confidence and support of the devolved administrations.

The Scottish government believes that the best way of resolving the current impasse is to negotiate an extension to the article 50 period and hold a second EU referendum. Given the rejection of your deal we will now be intensifying work towards the achievement of that aim.

Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader, and Michael Gove, the environment secretary, will close the no-confidence debate tonight. Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May will open it, obviously.

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There are no UQs or Statements today. After PMQs and the ten minute rule bill, at around 1pm @jeremycorbyn will open the #NoConfidenceVote debate. Theresa May will respond. The closing speeches around 630pm will be from @tom_watson and @michaelgove with the vote at 7pm.

Corbyn's call for Brexit renegotiation not realistic, say 71 Labour MPs as they demand second referendum

Seventy-one Labour MPs and 13 MEPs have signed a public statement calling for a second referendum on Brexit. They argue it is time for the party to commit to a second referendum and that a Brexit renegotiation, which at the moment is what Jeremy Corbyn is proposing, is “not a realistic prospect”.

Here is an extract from the statement.

We represent hugely diverse constituencies from the north to the south, from Wales to Scotland. Many of our constituencies voted to leave in 2016. We must listen to and respond to the reasons why people did so.

But we now face a moment of national crisis, where the facts and the views of many people have changed – and are continuing to change.

It is now clear renegotiation is not a realistic prospect. No deal would be a catastrophe which we must resolutely oppose. The government should seek an extension to article 50 to provide time for parliament to find a way forward. Theresa May has failed to bring this country back together.

Labour’s conference adopted a clear policy for this situation.

We must try and remove this government from office as soon as possible. But the removal of the government and pushing for a general election may prove impossible, so we must join trade unions, our members and a majority of our constituents by then unequivocally backing the only logical option to help our country move forward: putting the decision back to the people for a final say, in a public vote, with the option to stay and keep the deal that we have.

Defeat of the Tory deal in a public vote would give us all a chance to campaign for the anti-austerity policies and a Labour government that deals with the true causes of the Brexit vote, and a reformed Europe that works for all people.

The organisers say another 24 Labour MPs have publicly backed a second referendum, but haven’t signed today’s statement for administrative reasons.

The initiative is intended to put pressure on Corbyn to commit the party to back a second referendum. Under the carefully negotiated compromise position agreed at party conference, the party is committed to calling for a general election first, with “all options remaining on the table” if an election does not happen, “including campaigning for a public vote”. Campaigners for a “people’s vote” believe that, if the government wins the no-confidence vote tonight, Corbyn will no longer have any reason not to back a second referendum, although Corbyn has serious reservations about this approach and he does not seem keen to commit the party to backing second referendum legislation in any great hurry.

A group of Labour MPs calling for a new referendum on Brexit. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA